Senior Management Team

The Senior Management Team (SMT) is the main leadership and decision-making group for VSO globally with responsibility for:

  • strategy implementation
  • policy
  • group and departmental objectives and budgets
  • setting terms and conditions for the employment of staff

The international Senior Management Team is ultimately answerable to the VSO International Board of Trustees. SMT advises the Board on strategy and policy and other matters for which the Trustees have responsibility and acts within the broad policies agreed by the Board of Trustees.

SMT Members

Mark Goldring
Chief Executive
Richard Hawkes
Director, International Programmes
Jo Knowles
Director, Finance and IT
Brian Rockcliffe
Director of the VSO Federation
Judith Brodie
Director, VSO UK
Joan Howard
Director, Human Resources and Organisation Development

SMT takes collective and strategic responsibility for the work of VSO over and above the responsibility of individual directors for their functional groups.